URIteacherknowledge - EDC 102 - Fall 2007 Final Projects

EDC 102 - Final Project: Helping Use Understand an Educational Issue

A. Getting Started: Who is working on what?

We began our project by gathering ideas about possible issues in American Education and final artifacts in two brainstorming sessions.

We formed teams of five students based on shared interests. This table summarizes our teams and the issues that we are addressing.

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B. Resources for Doing Good Research

To prepare our presentations, we each did background research on a specific research question related to our issue. To do this well, we had help from Mona Florea from the URI Curriculum library. Each person in each group is responsible for completing background research. There is a rubric for how this research should be represented on URITK.

Library Resources Useful for Researching Educational Issues

These Research Guides provide links and tutorials related to the article databases presented in our library sessions in the Curriculum Materials Library.

Electronic Database	Database is ideal for...	Navigation directions from www.uri.edu/library/	Video-based Tutorial	Screenshot-based Tutorials
Education Full Text	scholarly, editorials, analysis	Library’s website > Reference Databases > Education
Academic Search Complete	scholarly, editorials, analysis	Library’s website > Reference Databases > General & Reference	Academic Search Complete	Step-by-Step Guide Finding Scholarly Articles Finding Editorials
Academic Search Elite	scholarly, editorials, analysis	Library’s website > Reference Databases > General & Reference
CQ Researcher	reports, essays, analysis	Library’s website > Reference Databases > General & Reference		Finding a Report
Points of View Reference Center	reports, essays, analysis	Library’s website > Reference Databases > General & Reference

Other databases: Academic Search Premier, JSTOR, Project MUSE

C. Teaching Ourselves

After a brave initial presentation by the Extracurricular Activities group, we came up with some guidelines as a class for each each presentation should include :

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